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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They have access to financial aid counselors, college persistence counselors, and a life coach, and are placed into paid internships after they finish a professional development course. DFC’s approach is in line with recent research showing that student success requires a comprehensive approach. Staff were everywhere.

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5 top priorities for advancement leaders in 2023

EAB

Priority #1: Enhancing collaboration with deans and academic leaders to meet campaign goals Strong collaboration between fundraisers and academic partners is essential to meeting campaign goals and supporting ambitious institutional strategic plans. Chief advancement officers are increasingly confronting the reality of this crisis.

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Supporting Your Social Media Manager in an Impossible Job

Campus Sonar

On the flip side, they also have moments of pure joy when they make a valuable connection with their audience through content or conversation, when they can tie their work to an enrolled student or fundraising goal met, and when they gather with industry colleagues at professional events. Provide professional development for your team.

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Why advancement employees leave (and how leaders can fix it)

EAB

In my experience, those who receive equitable pay adjustments are thankful for the increase – but they are even more grateful that you researched and addressed it proactively. In addition to base salary improvements, EAB research shows that performance-based incentives can contribute positively to employee morale and overall success.

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5 attributes defining Gen Z’s relationship with advancement

EAB

Instead, they will extensively research gift opportunities before making a donation. Resources EAB’s Digital Events Checklist for Advancement can help ensure higher education advancement delivers effective alumni engagement and fundraising events through virtual channels.

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All I Really Need to Know to Be a Professor, I Learned Doing Assessment

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

But, through assessment, I learned campus safety operations, the ins-and-outs of career development, fundraising strategies, and more. This helped me develop a broad student affairs generalist perspective. I’m a research generalist in the doctoral programs I direct.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Accreditors could, for example, require institutions to undergo professional development training in teaching. We need to redesign and give greater precedence to faculty development and instructional support. Because of a lack of accountability. They don’t. They haven’t.